Mabus outlines Navy response to sequestration
MARCH 4, 2013 — Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced March 2 that the Navy will go ahead with reductions in spending in order to meet the fiscal constraints imposed by
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Obama visits NNS to warn of sequester dangers
FEBRUARY 27, 2013 — With shipyards and shipyard workers likely to take some heavy hits as a result of looming sequestration cuts to defense spending, President Barack Obama yesterday used Huntington Ingalls
Ship repairers brace for Navy contract cancelations
FEBRUARY 15, 2013 — Shipyard workers are going to be among the first to feel the impact of Congressional failure to deal with budget issues. Yards specializing in Navy work were expecting
Colonna’s wins $17.9 million Navy contract
FEBRUARY 12, 2013 — Colonna’s Shipyard Inc., Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $17,942,143 fixed-price contract for a dry-docking phased maintenance availability on the USS Monsoon (PC 4) for the accomplishment of
Navy plan to downsize fleet draws criticism
FEBRUARY 7, 2012 — The U.S. Navy last month submitted its Congressionally mandated report on the Navy Combatant Vessel Force Structure Requirement. It has downsized its its overall fleet size requirement from
ST Marine to build new Singapore Navy patrol vessels
FEBRUARY 1, 2013 — The Singapore Ministry of Defense (MINDEF) has signed a contract with Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. for the design and construction of eight new naval vessels to replace the
Navy to remove grounded minesweeper one piece at a time
JANUARY 30, 2013 — All efforts to tow the minesweeper USS Guardian off a reef in the Philippines having failed, the Navy has decided that the only way remove the ship without
BAE Norfolk gets $80.6 million mod to LHD 7 contract
JANUARY 11, 2013 — BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded an $80,647,084 undefinitized contract modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee Navy contract (N00024-11-C-4407) for the planning and execution
Ingalls delivers LPD 24, awarded LPD 17 class maintenance
DECEMBER 10, 2012 — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has delivered the amphibious transport dock Arlington (LPD 24) to the U.S. Navy. Arlington is the eighth ship
NASSCO floats out first MLP ship
NOVEMBER 13 — General Dynamics NASSCO today completed the complex float out operation for the first Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) ship, USNS Montford Point, at its San Diego shipyard. Construction is progressing